Tony Iommi has issued the following message on his website regarding upcoming Heaven and Hell tour.

Putting to bed the longstanding rumours of a reunion tour, Heaven and Hell have announced their first tour dates for 2007. The tour will feature 11 Canadian shows, along with an exciting one-night-only performance at one of the most prestigious venues in the world, New York's Radio City Music Hall. Heaven and Hell reunites Tony Iommi with Ronnie James Dio, Geezer Butler and Vinny Appice for the first time in 15 years.

Currently there are 12 scheduled stops, starting on March 11 in Vancouver and ending on March 30 in New York City. The ‘Heaven And Hell’ world tour will continue until the end of the year with shows in the US, Asia and Europe. Additional dates will be announced shortly.

Multi-platinum recording artist Megadeth will be joining the tour, and previewing never before heard material from their upcoming release on Roadrunner Records, United Abominations. The tour also brings the return of Down, featuring Phil Anselmo and Rex Brown from Pantera, as well as Pepper Keenan of COC. This will undisputedly be the most anticipated rock tour of 2007.

The heavy metal icons are also scheduled to release a new anthology entitled Black Sabbath: The Dio Years. Anticipated release date is 3rd April 2007 on Rhino/Warner Bros. Records.

The Heaven and Hell Tour 2007 will include the following stops:
March 11 Vancouver, BC Pacific Coliseum
March 13 Edmonton, AB Rexall Place
March 14 Calgary, AB Saddledome
March 16 Regina, SK Brandt Centre
March 18 Winnipeg, MB MTS Centre
March 20 Sault St. Marie Steelback Centre
March 22 Toronto, ON Air Canada Centre
March 24 London, ON John Labatt Centre
March 26 Montreal, PQ Bell Centre
March 27 Quebec City, PQ Colisee Pepsi Arena
March 28 Ottawa, ON Civic Centre
March 30 New York, NY Radio City Music Hall

Tickets go on sale on 26th/27th January.

Source Tony Iommi

C.C. Banana has conducted an interview with all members of Twisted Sister. In the interview, C.C. Banana spoke with one of the founder, Jay Jay French about their current album and future of the band. Few excerpts are follows:

C.C. Banana: Now that the holiday season is drawing to a close, are you pleased with the response received by "A Twisted Christmas"?

Jay Jay French: Yes, it's exceeded all our expectations. It's incredible, nobody could have predicted this. We've doubled the sales expectations of our record label, which really blew our minds. As of today, it has SoundScanned over 65,000 units in the USA alone. And that's after having been on sale for just nine weeks. They're projecting 75,000 to 80,000 by the time it runs its course. Plus, we were on "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno", "The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson" and we appeared on the biggest morning show in Canada. We've become the alternative to the TRANS-SIBERIAN ORCHESTRA. We're the TRANSVESTITE SIBERIAN ORCHESTRA! I had expected this record to just kill the band once and for all, but now instead I have to keep working with these guys for another couple of years! Overall, I'm really happy with how everything turned out.

C.C. Banana: What was it like recording a Christmas album during one of the hottest summers on record?

Jay Jay French: Every Christmas album I know of has been recorded during the summer. Every quote I've ever read has been something like, "When I wrote 'Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire' it was 90 degrees outside." All I can say is, my chestnuts were roasting when we recorded this album. It was freakin' hot! We were in a studio on Long Island with the air conditioning turned off, because we wanted to squeeze every last nuance from those 100-watt Marshall amplifiers with no distortion. Just because we care that much!

C.C. Banana: What would you give Axl Rose for Christmas?

Jay Jay French: I'd give him a watch so he could get his sorry fuckin' ass on stage on time, instead of ripping off his fans. That piece of shit!

C.C. Banana: Which do you think would be more successful — a Kwanzaa record by LIVING COLOUR or Gene Simmons and Paul Stanley recording an album of Chanukah favorites?

Jay Jay French: I think a Kwanzaa record by 50 CENT would be the ultimate holiday album. I would buy that!

C.C. Banana: Name one alternate use for a candy cane.

Jay Jay French: Oooh! A sex aid for reindeer.

C.C. Banana: Are you "still hungry?"

Jay Jay French: Have you looked at our recent photos? Our next album will be called "Still Dieting".

C.C. Banana: Now that TWISTED SISTER is holding off in its retirement plans, do you feel bad for making people come to all those "final area appearances?"

Jay Jay French: We've always been extremely specific in how we've described our final area shows. If we tell people that we're playing our last show at a particular venue while standing five feet off-center, we will not play any more shows there while standing five feet off-center. So we've never actually reneged on any of those promises.

C.C. Banana: What can fans expect from TWISTED SISTER in 2007?

Jay Jay French: Another retirement lasting approximately 15 years. After which, we will get together with KISS, who will change their name from K-I-S-S to A-A-R-P. We will do a final tour of Ft. Lauderdale nursing homes, performing our hits "I Wanna Pee" and "Oy Vey! We're Not Gonna Take It!" We'll play that one when we're offered the enemas.

Source CCBanana

LORDI will perform on the "Ultimate Chart Show" on German TV next month. According to the group's German record company, Drakkar Entertainment, the performance will air on February 23 at 21.15h on RTL. A repeat broadcast is scheduled for February 24 at 15.55h.

Source BBM